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Spin-up problems of stratified rotating flows inside containers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2012
Abstract
Rotating, stratified flows are important in a wide variety of both geophysical and engineering applications. Whilst ‘steady state’ flows of this type are generally very simple (in effect, rigid body rotation), the effect of abruptly altering (even a little) the rotation rate can induce significant temporal flow disruptions, made all the more complicated when the fluid is bounded inside a closed finite container, a problem studied both experimentally and theoretically by Foster & Munro (J. Fluid Mech., this issue, vol. 712, 2012, pp. 7–40).
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